Improvement in washing-machines



G. FRIEND.

Washing-Machine.

Patented Sept. 14,1875.

dinary wash-tub, thereby combining porta- UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

GEORGE FRIEND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 167,767, datedSeptember 14, 1875; application filed August 2, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE FRIEND, of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Washin g- Machines; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective ofthe invention; Fig. 2, vertical transverse section.

The objectof my invention is to provide a machine or device for washingclothes, which can be attachedto, and removed from, the orbility andcheapness with complete efficiency.

My invention consists of a frame provided with clamping devices forsecuring it to the side of a wash-tub. Within this frame arefourcorrugated rollers, viz., a lower bed formed of three rollers of smalldiameter, rotating in fixed bearings, and an upper roller of largediameter, having spring-bearings in a vertical slot in each side of theframe. To the upper roller is affixed a handle, by which it is turned,while around the lower rollers passes an endless belt, preventing thearticles of clothing from passing down between said rollers, the beltitself being prevented from moving laterally out of position byguide-pins in the frame.

A A in the drawing represent the side, and A A the top and bottom,pieces forming the frame. 0 G 0 represent the lower rollers, whichrevolve in fixed bearings in the sides A A. D is an endless belt,passing around the rollers O (J G, and kept in position by theguide-pins d d projecting from the cross-piece A. B represents the upperroller, its journals revolving in vertical slots at a in the sides A A,and kept down by springs b.- B represents the handle by which the rollerB is caused to revolve. E E are hooks, attached to the sides A A, and acwedges, for inserting between the same and the sides of the tub, forholding the machine firmly clamped to the latter.

' The operation is as follows: The device is clamped to the inside of. atub, as shown in the drawing, and the garment requiring to be washedpassed in between the upper roller B and lower rollers G O G. The handleB is then turned backward and forward, so as to dip the clothing intothe soaped water contained in the tub, and then draw it to and frobetween the rollers.

As soon as the washing is completed the machine can be readily unclampedand put away, permitting the tub to be devoted to other uses, as rinsingor bluing.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. The improved washing-machine hereindescribed, designed. for attachment to a common wash-tub, and consistingof the frame A A A A having the rollers G O and B, the

former provided with the endless band D, held in place by holding-pins dd, and the latter having spring-bearings in the vertical slots a a, withthe L-shaped clamps E E resting upon the edge of the tub, and notched ontheir depending arms, and wedges e c, the several parts beingconstructed and combined for operation substantially as shown anddescribed. 2. The combination, with the frame A A of a rollerwashing-machine, of the L-shaped clamping-arms E, having notches intheir depending portions, and the curved wedge 6, corresponding to thecylindrical form of the tub, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this30th day of July, 1875.

4 GEORGE FRIEND.

Witnesses:

M. DANL. OoNNoLLY, CHAS. F. VAN HORN.

